陈新义硕士毕业于内蒙古大学，后在沈阳师范大学任职。2009年考入中央民族大学语言学及应用语言学专业，师从壮族著名语言学家覃晓航教授，攻读描写语言学方向博士学位。不幸的是，2012年春季在他即将毕业答辩之际，覃晓航教授英年早逝，没能看到这篇他曾倾注心血并悉心指导的博士学位论文。去年入秋的一天，陈新义来电话说到他的博士学位论文即将付梓，邀我为他的书稿写序。他答辩前的论文我的确曾拜读过并给予了一些力所能及的建议，感觉是一篇颇具理论水平的论文，也是我十分喜欢阅读并从中获得许多启发的佳作。而更重要的是，他是我的挚友晓航的高徒，这篇论文是他们师徒经多次切磋最终确定下来的选题，并共同倾注心血的结晶。因此，我十分愿意借此机会表述一下对论文的整体感觉和所获启发，权当一次深度交流，抑或替晓航兄代言？阿尔泰语系假说自创建以来，学界的确已有丰硕成果，但总体上，主要集中于旨在构拟阿尔泰语系诸语之间发生学关系的历史比较研究和重在解析阿尔泰语系诸语言系统的结构描写研究等方面，而有关类型学专题研究的相关研究成果也多着墨于构词、构形等论题。陈新义选择以阿尔泰语系语言语序类型和词法类型作为研究论题，切入视角确属大胆且具新意，也极富可持续研究的价值，可谓在学位论文的写作上迈出了坚实而关键的一步。当然，此选题绝非凭空臆想，因为，陈新义也曾关注并比较过阿尔泰语系某些语言之间的异同，仅在博士学位在读期间就曾发表了蒙古语和满语、蒙古语和汉语的对比研究等相关注文，这些均为此选题的确定奠定了一定的理论与方法论基础。论文打破了以往阿尔泰语系各个语族之间的界限，以形态、词、短语、句子的顺序为参项，采用层层分类的方法，综合分析各语言的语序类型特征。作者巧妙地利用阿尔泰语系形态特征上的SOV型语序类型，并按其语序内部两个方向的语序特点即修饰成分类前置，附加成分类后置，并且名词性成分、动词性成分的结构都是“修饰语＋中心语＋附加成分”的结构的分布特点进行了阐释。凭借深厚的语言学功底和超常的执着与毅力，陈新义出色地完成了这个具有相当含金量的“巨大”工程，也给自己的博士学业画上了一个圆满的句号。我认为，这篇论文至少有以下几个特点：其一，作者学术态度极其严肃。这体现在对前人的相关研究成果的梳理非常到位，既有全面详尽的介绍，也发现了存在的问题，在此基础上对当下阿尔泰语系的薄弱领域予以客观评述，为确定论文的选题和切入视角奠定了扎实的基础；其二，结构谋篇十分合理，语言类型学视角的论题均有涉猎，体现了作者对论文整体的驾驭能力和超强的逻辑思维能力；其三，作者选择了名词、动词、形容词、短语、句子等形态进行分析研究，重点突出，思路清晰；其四，在描写的基础上竭力使描写与解释有机结合。论文认为阿尔泰语系SOV型语序内部有两个方向的语序分布：修饰成分类前置，附加成分类后置，构成“修饰语＋中心语＋附加成分”结构，还从不同角度解释了产生不同语序类型的语义、结构机制；其五，区分了基本句型和句型变体。认为句子语序类型包括两种句式（双及物句和差比句）和三种句型（SOV及其变体OSV、OVS）。在句子中，谓语动词的结构是“外在语义成分＋动词＋内部语义成分”，外在语义成分是静态的，内部语义成分是动态的，所以谓语动词结构是平衡的结构。句子在结构上、语义上也都呈现平衡的状态。当然，论文可能难以避免的不足是参考书目中缺少了一些俄罗斯和前苏联时期的相关研究文献，这些文献多以俄文或不同的现代突厥语撰写而成，其中涉及到与语序类型学等相关专题的研究文献应该也有一些。另外，在动词体及句子结构类型的深度论述上仍有后续研究并提升的较大空间。陈新义在博士学位论文答辩时，答辩委员们给予了高度评价。如今，看到他充分吸纳各位评委的意见与建议后修订的书稿出版在即，由衷地为他高兴，也借此机会表示真诚的祝贺。丁石庆2014年元月26日

Chen Xinyi graduated from Inner Mongolia University with a master's degree and later worked at Shenyang Normal University. In 2009, he was admitted to the Central University for Nationalities majoring in linguistics and applied linguistics, under the tutelage of Professor Qin Xiaohang, a famous linguist of the Zhuang nationality, to pursue a doctorate degree in descriptive linguistics. Unfortunately, in the spring of 2012, when he was about to defend his graduation, Professor Qin Xiaohang died young, and he was not able to see this doctoral dissertation to which he devoted his heart and soul to supervision. One day in the autumn of last year, Chen Xinyi called to say that his doctoral dissertation was about to be completed, and invited me to write the foreword to his manuscript. I did read and gave some suggestions to my best of my ability, and I felt that it was a very theoretical paper, and it was also a good work that I enjoyed reading and got a lot of inspiration from. More importantly, he is a senior apprentice of my dear friend Xiaohang, and this thesis is the culmination of their master-apprentice research and joint efforts. Therefore, I would like to take this opportunity to express my overall feelings and inspiration for the paper, whether it should be an in-depth exchange, or speak for Brother Xiaohang? Since the establishment of the Altaic hypothesis, the academic community has indeed achieved fruitful results, but in general, it mainly focuses on historical comparative research aimed at constructing the scientific relationship between Altaic languages, focusing on the analysis of the structural description of Altaic language systems, and the relevant research results of special research on typology are also mostly on topics such as word formation and formation. Chen Xinyi's choice of word order types and morphological types of Altaic languages as his research topic is indeed bold and innovative, and it is also very valuable for sustainable research, which can be said to be a solid and crucial step in the writing of his dissertation. Of course, this topic is by no means a fantasy, because Chen Xinyi has also paid attention to and compared the similarities and differences between some languages of the Altaic language family, and only during his doctoral studies, he has published comparative research on Mongolian and Manchu, Mongolian and Chinese, etc., which have laid a certain theoretical and methodological foundation for the determination of this topic. This paper breaks the boundaries between various language families of the previous Altaic language family, takes the morphology, word, phrase and sentence order as the reference, and adopts the method of layer-by-layer classification to comprehensively analyze the word order type characteristics of each language. The author cleverly uses the SOV-type word order type on the morphological characteristics of the Altaic language family, and explains the distribution characteristics of the structure of the structure of "modifier + central + additional component" according to the word order characteristics of the two directions within the word order, that is, modified into a classification preposition, attached to a classification postposition, and the structure of noun components and verb components are all "modifier + central + additional component". With profound linguistic skills and extraordinary persistence and perseverance, Chen Xinyi brilliantly completed this "huge" project with considerable gold content, and also drew a successful end to his doctoral studies. In my opinion, this paper has at least the following characteristics: First, the author's academic attitude is extremely serious. This is reflected in the combing of the relevant research results of the predecessors is very in place, not only a comprehensive and detailed introduction, but also found the existing problems, on the basis of which the weak areas of the current Altaic language family are objectively commented, which lays a solid foundation for determining the topic selection and entry perspective of the paper; Second, the structure of the essay is very reasonable, and the topics from the perspective of language typology are involved, which reflects the author's ability to control the overall paper and super logical thinking ability; Third, the author selected nouns, verbs, adjectives, phrases, sentences and other forms for analysis and research, with prominent focus and clear thinking; Fourth, on the basis of description, strive to organically combine description and interpretation. This paper argues that there are two directions of word order distribution within the SOV-type word order of the Altaic language family: modified into classification preposition, additional into classification postposition, forming the structure of "modifier + central language + additional component", and also explains the semantic and structural mechanisms of different word order types from different angles. Fifth, it distinguishes between basic sentence patterns and sentence variants. It is believed that sentence word order types include two sentence patterns (double and difference sentences) and three sentence patterns (SOV and its variants OSV and OVS). In a sentence, the structure of the predicate verb is "extrinsic semantic component + verb + internal semantic component", the extrinsic semantic component is static, and the internal semantic component is dynamic, so the predicate verb structure is a balanced structure. Sentences are also balanced in structure and semantics. Of course, the inevitable deficiency of the paper is the lack of some relevant Russian and Soviet research literature in the bibliography, which is mostly written in Russian or different modern Turkic languages, and there should be some research literature related to topics related to word order typology. In addition, there is still much room for follow-up research and improvement in the in-depth discussion of verb body and sentence structure types. Chen Xinyi defended his doctoral dissertation, and the defense committee members spoke highly of it. Now, seeing that his revised manuscript after fully incorporating the opinions and suggestions of the judges is about to be published, I am sincerely happy for him and take this opportunity to express my sincere congratulations. Ding Shiqing, January 26, 2014（AI翻译）